Budget Analyst

About the role

This position is intended to serve as a Budget Analyst and financial liaison for Finance Service and various VHA and multiple individual entities. The role has primary responsibility for establishing and maintaining a complex integrated system of financial systems, appropriations, and services which contribute to effective management control over facility operations. Position Description/PD#: Budget Analyst/PD03989O and PD03989A. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized. Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise to care line managers and service chiefs regarding all aspects of budget formulation, justification, presentation, and execution.
• Work with care line managers and service chiefs in planning the type of financial data and information to be submitted in support of budget estimates.
• Keep abreast of pending and enacted legislation and governmental regulations affecting the availability of appropriated funds.
• Responsible for the distribution of funds to various control points, analyzing actual expenditures as compared to the plan, and making projections to indicate needed adjustments in the budget plan.
• Perform budgeting for relatively unstable operating programs which require reprogramming several times a year (e.g., when patient workload decreases or increases, withdraw funds from one control point and utilize it more efficiently in another).
• Resolve difficult problems of prediction and forecasting due to uncertainties or changes in operating programs, fluctuations in patient census, provider shortages causing workload to be sent to non-VA programs, changing salary estimates due to constant occurrence of vacant positions and the lag time required to fill positions.
• Actively assist in participation of both short and long-range planning activities, influencing decisions and actions that involve scope of programs and overall policies and procedures of the Chillicothe medical facilities.
• Collaborate with other service chiefs/care line managers to negotiate and/or coordinate work‑related changes affecting their service/care line and budget.
• Responsible for meeting the needs of customers while supporting the missions of the San Antonio VA Medical Center.
• Provide the customer with consistent information according to established policies and procedures.
• Handle conflict and problems in dealing with the customer constructively and appropriately.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement (10/09/2026).

Time‑In‑Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time‑in‑grade requirements by the closing date. For a GS‑09 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS‑07. The grade may have been in any occupation but must have been held in Federal service. An SF‑50 that shows your time‑in‑grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF‑50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one‑year time‑in‑grade; in this instance you must provide an additional SF‑50 that clearly demonstrates one‑year time‑in‑grade. Note: Time‑In‑Grade requirements also apply